40s Retro Football Fantasy Draft | Finished

by the way, is there a thread or can anyone tell me how to create short little gif clips like this?
 
Balu said:
I'm totally lost, the plan was to finally pick a defensive midfielder, but then you guys went all crazy and picked my whole list. So feck defending, let's create some chances for Gerd to score instead. I'm delighted to get him, someone who can dribble and create down the middle and play wonderful defense splitting passes:

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Looks like a nice guy as well.
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Nooooooo! Please nooooooo! feck
 
These are players who I thought I could get in the next few rounds but they all gone!

@Balu You've been on the mains for a long time, has Dobrin ever been drafted for a game? I checked his name on the caf on sataurday and only 3 posts came up... I was so sure I'd bag him:(
 
RedTiger said:
These are players who I thought I could get in the next few rounds but they all gone!

@Balu You've been on the mains for a long time, has Dobrin ever been drafted for a game? I checked his name on the caf on sataurday and only 3 posts came up... I was so sure I'd bag him:(
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I've no idea to be honest. There are others who play and follow draft games way longer than I do. @Gio might know it? I was actually surprised that he lasted so long, especially because there's in my opinion a rather limited number of great AMs in this draft. He's absolutely brilliant, would have had a great career at Real if Ceausescu didn't forbid the transfer.
 
Balu said:
I've no idea to be honest. There are others who play and follow draft games way longer than I do. @Gio might know it? I was actually surprised that he lasted so long, especially because there's in my opinion a rather limited number of great AMs in this draft. He's absolutely brilliant, would have had a great career at Real if Ceausescu didn't forbid the transfer.
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So true. His story is rather sad but also inspiring in the way he played for his hometown club for nigh on his entire career while spurning chances to play for tge Romanian big boys... Almost like Le Tissier.
 
RedTiger said:
So true. His story is rather sad but also inspiring in the way he played for his hometown club for nigh on his entire career while spurning chances to play for tge Romanian big boys... Almost like Le Tissier.
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Are you from Romania?
 
RedTiger said:
I own a restaurant in the U.K, I employ Eastern Europeans and my current emloyee ( a romanian called Elvis) told me about him when I mentioned this draft:)
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If he want to pass on a few more details about his career, I'm happy to receive a PM :)
 
Balu said:
If he want to pass on a few more details about his career, I'm happy to receive a PM :)
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Will do;) the main problem is the fact he only played for his hometown side and he didn't do much internationally.
His videos though:D he honestly looks like a modern day footballer but playing on black&white screen.
This draft has been quite difficult but im glad I found a player who I never knew existed last week.
 
Both CB picks gone and Stiles too. I need to do some thinking.
 
crappycraperson said:
It's the draft pool. Think we should have gone with 8 and not 16 teams here. If I am not wrong, both 50s and 60s draft were done with 8 teams only
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Reckon we should spice it up after round 6 and do the rest of the draft with players born in the 30s....
 
crappycraperson said:
It's the draft pool. Think we should have gone with 8 and not 16 teams here. If I am not wrong, both 50s and 60s draft were done with 8 teams only
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16 teams is fine. There will be some obscure players picked up later on, but it's good to have some variety and not just the usual suspects.
 
ctp said:
16 teams is fine. There will be some obscure players picked up later on, but it's good to have some variety and not just the usual suspects.
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As far as scan voters are concerned, obscure players are already being picked. Would be surprised if average voting in first round draft games exceeds 10 per match.
 
ctp said:
16 teams is fine. There will be some obscure players picked up later on, but it's good to have some variety and not just the usual suspects.
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Amen.

You need to field some hard-sells and water carriers - which is precisely what could make the teams genuinely interesting for a change.
 
crappycraperson said:
As far as scan voters are concerned, obscure players are already being picked. Would be surprised if average voting in first round draft games exceeds 10 per match.
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Well, we could easily have drafts featuring nothing but well known, voter friendly players all the time - but then we'd get bored to tears ourselves, and nobody would bother signing up for the drafts in the first place. And so the scan voters would have nothing to scan.
 
Chesterlestreet said:
Well, we could easily have drafts featuring nothing but well known, voter friendly players all the time - but then we'd get bored to tears ourselves, and nobody would bother signing up for the drafts in the first place. And so the scan voters would have nothing to scan.
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Heh.. I don't mind low voting but it will be very difficult to formulate some of the arguments. It will be a bit like the All time British draft. In any case, with low voting this draft may not be the best pilot for any score related voting changes.
 
Chesterlestreet said:
Well, we could easily have drafts featuring nothing but well known, voter friendly players all the time - but then we'd get bored to tears ourselves, and nobody would bother signing up for the drafts in the first place. And so the scan voters would have nothing to scan.
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There's a difference between not well known and obscure. The amount of materials (articles/videos) available to rate a players is in itself will be difficult to find for players picked in rounds 5 or 6, imo. Even down the line, it would become a farce if we start going by manager claims and random bits of data. The hard work goes to managers to put up a decent case for the obscure ones. Hope we just don't get "He has played as half back so can do any kind of job in midfield' arguments.
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
There's a difference between not well known and obscure. The amount of materials (articles/videos) available to rate a players is in itself will be difficult to find for players picked in rounds 5 or 6, imo. Even down the line, it would become a farce if we start going by manager claims and random bits of data. The hard work goes to managers to put up a decent case for the obscure ones. Hope we just don't get "He has played as half back so can do any kind of job in midfield' arguments.
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It's a different kettle to the usual problem, though, i.e. that someone fields José Obscurio who was by all accounts (but there are hardly any accounts) a great second striker, but he can't do much beyond pointing to a few, measly references to back it up. These players aren't that old. Which means that if there isn't much material available for José Obscurio, or Franz Feckwitzer, it's legit to assume that they weren't that great - which then becomes an argument in itself for the opponent.

I've never understood that particular worry, by the way: The onus is obviously on the manager to back up his claims about the player - if he can't do that, the opponent has a clear edge. And I would think most voters feel that way too (they certainly won't vote for names they've never heard of if they don't bother reading the write-up).
 
Really can't decide between a couple of players.
 
RedTiger said:
These are players who I thought I could get in the next few rounds but they all gone!

@Balu You've been on the mains for a long time, has Dobrin ever been drafted for a game? I checked his name on the caf on sataurday and only 3 posts came up... I was so sure I'd bag him:(
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Nah I think this is his debut.
 
The difference here compared to the British draft is that all of the players are part of the same generation, so in theory we have access to broadly the same level of media coverage. That'll vary subject to where the player comes from, but it's certainly a lot more equal than any of the all-time drafts. I think the 50s draft was 10 teams which probably struck a good balance, but the beauty here is that teams will be getting built around lesser lights for a change - apart from the sell-out cnut Chester - rather than the usual suspects.
 
Gio said:
The difference here compared to the British draft is that all of the players are part of the same generation, so in theory we have access to broadly the same level of media coverage. That'll vary subject to where the player comes from, but it's certainly a lot more equal than any of the all-time drafts. I think the 50s draft was 10 teams which probably struck a good balance, but the beauty here is that teams will be getting built around lesser lights for a change - apart from the sell-out cnut Chester - rather than the usual suspects.
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We shall see. My personal experience is that unless someone really puts in the effort like anto, even in this kind of draft, the team with most known name wins out.
 
crappycraperson said:
We shall see. My personal experience is that unless someone really puts in the effort like anto, even in this kind of draft, the team with most known name wins out.
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That's clearly the case in terms of scan voters - but then again it's always the case, even with modern players, or players who should be well known: The biggest names are per default vote winners, there isn't anything anyone can realistically do about that - unless we reform the voting system.

So, whether it's downright obscure players, or players who aren't quite as shiny as X, Y or Z - it's the same principle and the same problem regardless of the pool.
 
Gio said:
The difference here compared to the British draft is that all of the players are part of the same generation, so in theory we have access to broadly the same level of media coverage. That'll vary subject to where the player comes from, but it's certainly a lot more equal than any of the all-time drafts.
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Precisely. You'll get some players from S-America or from behind the Iron Curtain whose careers will be a bit difficult to document in the same way you can with most players who featured in the major European leagues - but I think we can live with that.

Every team here will have some genuine stars - so the challenge will be to build proper teams around those players. You don't get to field 11 names you can easily sell - instead you have to actually sell the team, the balance, the tactics, etc. Which is how it should be, actually, if you ask me.

Well, that goes for the rest of you mugs anyway - I have Pelé, so I don't really have to worry about tactics or shite team mates and such.
 
I seriously dislike having Aldo in that position. I've a feeling he's after both my present targets. Which means I have to gamble to an extent - plus make a sacrifice I could do without.
 
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